Flock the Optic

RISD Glass Alumni Tina Aufiero, and Liesl Schubel, along with David King, Abram DesLauriers, use sensors, projections, and a kaleidoscope to contrast the migration of snow geese with American political and pop culture.

Pilchuck EAiRs 2015

Cooper O'Brien

Concerned with capturing the passage of movement through material and cultivating textural details of the turbulence that manifests, Cooper O'Brien's work draws on the aesthetics of fluidity and liquid behavior. Practicing ritualistic repetition and layering of action, O'Brien arrives at form by pouring himself and material into space to inspect the eddies and ripples that crystalize.

PAD London Art & Design Fair

Michael Glancy

2016 TECHNOLOGY ADVANCING GLASS GRANT RECIPIENT

Boyd Sugiki

October 4, 2016The Glass Art Society is pleased to announce that the 2016 Technology Advancing Glass (TAG) Grant will support “3-D Animated Glassblowing Tutorials,” an innovative project proposed by Boyd Sugiki. Sugiki will be awarded $5,000 USD to transform his 2-dimensional glassblowing teaching diagrams into 3-dimensional animations. The animations will not only illustrate key points in shaping various forms in blown glass, but will also show indicators of heat, directional pressure, and the intensity of pressure being applied to the glass form.

The New Classics: Contemporary Glass

Curated in Part by RISD Glass Alum Benjamin Wright

To define the 4th dimension of the glass world one must find the variables vibrating from the farthest cultural norms and well-traveled orbits of the masses; They must be so far off the atomic grid that they redefine it. The artist’s in this exhibition engage space, time, and pseudo-science with the sardonic wit of a home chemistry enthusiast.

There is no question that glass attracts a community of eclectic practitioners that move to the beat of an idiosyncratic drummer. In this, it defies rigid logic and acts of its own volition: freezing movement, transferring light, and transitioning between a liquid and solid states. Even in this odd company, these artists are transgressive, the weirdest of the weird, non-conformist, ill-fitting prosthetics of the glass world. They are busy producing the new classics of tomorrow.

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Megan Biddle, Amber Cowan, Jessica Jane Julius, and Sharyn O'Mara

Four Philadelphia-based artists offer a timely refuge from the chaos and din of our daily, digital world. Colleagues on the faculty of Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Megan Biddle, Amber Cowan, Jessica Jane Julius, and Sharyn O’Mara have created a body of stunning works that are visually and conceptually diverse, including site-specific installations as well as individual sculptures and drawings.

“Glass is tied to both old and new technologies; its processes can be both archaic and innovative, manual and mechanical. As the material of the screens on our phones, laptops, and tablets, it becomes a membrane between the physical and the digital, the medium delivering a constant barrage of information and connecting us to vast social networks. In “HUSH”, however, the artists look to glass as an escape from the noise and speed of a digital age, as something slow, quiet, manual, and solitary.”

Paracosm

Norte Maar’s cutting edge visual art program continues in Cypress Hills with an exhibition organized by guest curators Suzanne Peck (artist) and Erin O’Connor (sociologist). Paracosm: New Worlds in Glass features works that imagine parallel universes through the artists’ experiences and the unique material attributes of glass. Frida Fjellman, Kim Harty, David King, Erica Rosenfeld, Brett Swenson, and Benjamin Wright create paracosms of their own design – works that draw in, illuminate, and challenge both the earnest and absurd. This show explores transformation by art’s earliest artifice.